Throttled on Straight Talk at the 1.2gb?

I was really happy with the straight talk so far for my first trial month, but being throttled at 1.2 GB is pretty ridiculous. And throttled to 0.24?!? I'm using the at&t sim, started on Nov 18 and today Dec 13, and just this evening I cannot get past 0.24 mbps. Do you think going to the tmobile sim would be different? This is pretty upsetting with several days left on the month.

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What sucks, say if you buy the 3 month or 6 month prepaid card, they won't unthrottle it until the end of the service cycle. I got throttle back in November and on their support forum, they pm'd me saying I hate to wait until January since I bought a 3 month card.

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I think what was funny was that they denied throttling me, yet told me that once my new billing cycle started, my speeds would go back to normal. Really?? I asked them how they knew that if they weren't responsible for my slower speeds. No response. I had to laugh. I hung up, sold my N4 and am just keeping with Verizon and unlimited data for as long as I can.

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And this is why I went the T-Mobile Monthly 4G route. I'm on the $60 plan (2GB high speed, then throttle), but at least I know exactly when they're going to throttle me (they even send a warning text when you're getting close to your cap). But I'm contemplating moving up to their $70 plan (NO data throttle) next billing cycle because Spotify is becoming quite the data pig in the car...

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Originally Posted by CaptainChunk

And this is why I went the T-Mobile Monthly 4G route. I'm on the $60 plan (2GB high speed, then throttle), but at least I know exactly when they're going to throttle me (they even send a warning text when you're getting close to your cap). But I'm contemplating moving up to their $70 plan (NO data throttle) next billing cycle because Spotify is becoming quite the data pig in the car...

Have you considered Solavei? T-Mobile MVNO - $49 for unlimited talk /text /data. The data isn't throttled until 4GB. This makes it a better value than the $50 or $60 T-Mobile plans. Could be an option if you don't need the truly unlimited $70 plan.

Solavei is also doing the affiliate sign up thing which can effectively lower this rate if you're interested in such things.

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Originally Posted by runtmms

Have you considered Solavei? T-Mobile MVNO - $49 for unlimited talk /text /data. The data isn't throttled until 4GB. This makes it a better value than the $50 or $60 T-Mobile plans. Could be an option if you don't need the truly unlimited $70 plan.

Solavei is also doing the affiliate sign up thing which can effectively lower this rate if you're interested in such things.

I've been very happy with them.

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I've considered Solavei at one point. Question though: do they hit you with an activation fee if you're only interested in the phone service itself? I'm kinda unclear on that. Thanks!